On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 23:05 -0400, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:12:40PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Floppy disk, CD-Rs & flash drives are a big step down from a multi- > > dozen GB-sized HDD. > > He's testing it on HDs, but getting a lot of feedback about how fat and > ReiserFs don't support sync, and if they did support sync it would be > slow as the dickens. There is a suggestion to use a "fastusb <command>" > option which would transparently remount as async for the duration of a > command, and remount sync when done [1]. As long as you don't yank > during an async op, you shouldn't expect data loss. > > Pretty fascinating project -- just started 2 days ago. Look at the > "usbmount" thread on debian-mentors@l.d.o. > > [1] Pretty sure XPSP2 does somethin like this, async/sync hybrid with > more aggressive flushes, when things "settle down." You used to have to > manually stop a mass storage device, bad things would happen if you > didn't, but that's less true now. Interesting. I wonder if the same issues occur on/with firewire drives (that's what I have). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." Thomas Jefferson
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